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- Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: World of Darkness: Mirrors
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8047
Sure you can. Adding options can set up a prisoners dilemma. No, not even then. There are times when it is better to be irrational in certain problems, but that is not the same thing. Game theory gets really mind-melty the more you get into it. Take a scenario of a one round of forced cooperation f...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:41 pm
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 241
- Views: 66155
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:28 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60157
That makes sense, but aren't these hex types also going to matter for other parts of the game? So you could have a swamp hex, which is poor farmland, difficult to move armies through, and carries a risk of disease. Improving it by filling the swamp will affect all of these, and will eventually resul...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:08 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 150761
Where are you getting DC 15 as the default? The craft skill has simple items at DC 5 and typical items at DC 10. Making them takes 8 hours/(DC*check result/item price in sp). Common meals cost 3sp per day, so even an untrained cook can make their own food in 2:40 a day by taking 10. Since that's com...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Domain Rules
- Replies: 429
- Views: 60157
Arbitrary flight ceilings for everything doesn't feel great. I do like starting with spell ranges. Close range is throwing weapons, it generally doesn't matter much vs melee as it's within charge range. Medium range is the limit of direct fire. Bows can be relatively accurate at this distance. Long ...
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:16 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Turning Monopoly: Pokemon edition into a decent Pokemon game
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3052
When talking about how to improve a version of monopoly, I think Mario Kart Monopoly is an interesting game to look at. There are a few big changes. First, only one of the dice is numbered, the other is a powerup die that either boosts you or hits the other players. To account for the reduced moveme...
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 4:48 am
- Forum: About the Gaming Den
- Topic: The Obligatory Rules Thread, Take Two
- Replies: 223
- Views: 271697
However, fbmh has already been brought into this, because Frank is using the rules to win arguments. If Kaelik and MGuy ignored Frank and posted in his clubhouse, Frank would be relying on fbmh to kick them out. To me, this suggests that the change in the rules that most respects fbmh's limited time...
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 4:50 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: From the Depths of Wikipedia
- Replies: 2956
- Views: 422063
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 7:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: D&D 5e has failed
- Replies: 1907
- Views: 408489
- Sun May 05, 2019 8:23 am
- Forum: In The Trenches
- Topic: Tomb of Xagyg: Solo Dungeon & Dragons Adventure
- Replies: 399
- Views: 45358
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 2:58 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR Request Thread
- Replies: 657
- Views: 170629
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:30 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: [OSSR]Best of the Dragon, vol. I
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10546
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:25 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Image macros that make you laugh, cry, or both.
- Replies: 6320
- Views: 1000304
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- Thu Mar 28, 2019 1:25 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3813
I could see geometric generation/linear advancement working for a game that has starting characters as non-adventurers/heroes who become heroes over the game. It heavily encourages starting characters to be spread out and not particularly good at anything but lets them specialize easily as the game ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 6:13 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Dumb Wizard Tricks
- Replies: 99
- Views: 25112
How about the Wizard's Hat/Tinfoil Hat defense? Antimagic Field is dangerous, but can be defeated with a bit of prep. You get a tall metal cone, big enough to stand in. Then you cast Shrink Item on it, turning it into a cloth cone which you wear as a hat. When you enter an AMF, it snaps back to full...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 962615
Toxicant is amazing. Until 14th level (so all game), you just give up one discovery for a poison that hits anyone who hits you without a weapon and can be applied to your own weapons as a swift. Starting at 6th level, the poison can daze anyone who fails the (easily-buffed) save, giving you a stunlo...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 3:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Feats: success or failiure
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6989
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:40 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36227
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 6:06 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Annoying Game Questions You Want Answered
- Replies: 5992
- Views: 962615
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 8:01 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Superhero RPG that is not about wizards
- Replies: 152
- Views: 23602
The majority of supers in Worm are one trick ponies, so there's definitely superhero fiction out there that works that way. I can't imagine a sane system for playing Worm in though. Like the protagonist can control all bugs in a 3-block radius, so she cares about things like how nice of a neighborh...
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
- Replies: 202
- Views: 84220
I liked 3.5 Dragonborn, but almost entirely due to the transformation. I wrote three backstories that hinged on it. One was an old wizard, long retired, who decided to undergo the ritual because it would make him young again, in exchange for having to fight evil. One was a former crusader who had be...
- Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:39 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36227
Even Frank can only remember a whooping two times he bothered using a non-spiked chain exotic weapon, one of those was in an homebrewed games where the exotic weapon was made martial so it wasn't even an exotic weapon anymore and the other was for the lulz since when was the last time it mattered w...
- Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:24 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36227
The Swordsage really isn't a swashbuckler. It seems to be a catch-all for all the not-quite-mundane and sneaky types. Its schools show this. It gets the blasty, throw some fire with your sword type of gish-flavored school, the meditative focus willpower school, the martial arts with throws and holds...
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:34 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
- Replies: 202
- Views: 84220
Remember that the Monster Manual 5 was the result of David Noonan being told explicitly that the fans didn't want the Monster Manual 5 to waste large amounts of page count on monsters with class levels, on irrelevancies like cave maps, or on long-winded tirades about monster gangs. Then the draft h...
- Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR Request Thread
- Replies: 657
- Views: 170629
I was reading through some OSSRs and I thought of some books that would make interesting reviews. First, 4e core. It would be interesting to look at exactly what they were trying to do and why that failed so badly. Second, ToB. The third of the Orcus books, and the only one to be successful. Third, ...